Big Burke announcement

dlague said:

I grew up in that area and Newport has always been depressed with promises of large businesses moving in, then at the last second poof the deal was dead. It is nice to see this one coming to light! Many locals are upset still - they are complaining that the jobs are mostly low wage. Unemployment is high there so I am sure this will help!

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from_the_NEK said:

I don't think EB-5 money can be usedfor aproject like that since the money invested has to "produce" a certain return of jobs created. Snow making costs a lot of money with few additional jobs easily tied to it. The kind of investment has to come out of Q-Burke's pockets I think. Same goes for other "improvements" to the skiing experience (trails expansion, lifts, etc).

On another note, the mountain has been pretty quite this summer other than some expansion of lower mtn MTB trails. There hasn't been really any movement on the new hotel/lodge.
The Act 250 permit has yet to be approved and I can't really tell if the following is what is holding up the progress.

A neighbor (owner of the "Stone House") has filed a Party Status Petition stating the new development will create a traffic issue that will harm their home and make accesing the driveway of their home unsafe.

Initial Complaint - http://www.anr.state.vt.us/imaging/planning/7C0206-13-5/Compiano-Ryczek Party Status Petition.pdf
Q-Burke response - http://www.anr.state.vt.us/imaging/planning/7C0206-13-5/Applicant response-Compiano.pdf
Complaintant Response to the response - http://www.anr.state.vt.us/imaging/...ty Status Petition response June 11, 2013.pdf

That corner is kind of blind and it is easy to speed through there . Burke proposed some reasonable modifications to make things safer. However, other than an outright redesign of the road, I think the owner is going to have issues. I could see removing the curve altogether and bring the road down from the Mid-Lodge to a 4 way intersection with Pinkham Rd and Rexford Rd. The vast majority of traffic would have to make right turn going up the Mountain Rd. Traffic coming down would have to Stop and turn left.
Seems pretty simple, however I'm sure there are a whole range of additional permits and such that would need to be waded through to do something like this.

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awf170 said:

I'm honored that something I (partially) wrote has found its way onto AlpineZone (I work for RSG)!

Interesting idea about the rerouting.... man that is a whole lot of money for one silly house. How steep is that area where you sketched your proposed road in? When/If this project gets back to us I'm going to cite "from_the_NEK" as one of sources. Thanks for the free consulting work! ;-)

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from_the_NEK said:

On a sad and frustrating note, I reformatted my computer and lost the contents of the My Places that I had spent years building in Google Earth. The My Places contains all of the polygons, lines, image overlay placements, etc. It is going to take a while to recreate a lot of that stuff. I still have my 3D building files that I created since I did back those up correctly.

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thetrailboss said:

My point was that the creation of new jobs will lead to a demand for other services and other jobs that pay more. I agree that jobs at the resort are not likely to be very well paying or offer the opportunities for advancement within the company. And I'd say that [normally] this would lead to more economic growth except that we're talking about Vermont and that KT's point of "economic development vs. good economic development" seems to happen more often than not.

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kingdom-tele said:

http://www.google.com/search?client...county+VT+unemployment+rate&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8

Salvation? The trend is pretty clear up here. Maybe adding 9300 people to the work force is the best way to hide the consistent 1,000 or so who have no interest in working.

How about them social services? Any idea what a part time, seasonal employee has for medical coverage? They aren't really going out of their way to unburden the social safety net if you know what I mean.

There are changes though, local B&B/Inns are selling out, hockey teams are spending tons of cash, local tradesmen are busy fixing all the backwards construction, etc. Not sure I fully understand the model they are using, I suppose as long as they keep building infrastructure those job numbers work out, if nothing else we'll have some of the finest empty buildings in the country, 930 investors and counting...

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the original trailboss said:

Just to throw a little fuel on the fire - Sen. Leahy has proposed an amendment to the EB-5 program which would allow projects to hire multiple part-time employees instead of a single "full-time" employee (example: two 20-hour per week part-time employees would equal one full-time employee).

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